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PILS : exploring high-order neighborhoods by pattern mining and injection
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Abstract
We introduce pattern injection local search (PILS), an optimization strategy that uses pattern mining to explore high-order local-search neighborhoods, and illustrate its application on the vehicle routing problem. PILS operates by storing a limited number of frequent patterns from elite solutions. During the local search, each pattern is used to define one move in which 1) incompatible edges are disconnected, 2) the edges defined by the pattern are reconnected, and 3) the remaining solution fragments are optimally reconnected. Each such move is accepted only in case of solution improvement. As visible in our experiments, this strategy results in a new paradigm of local search, which complements and enhances classical search approaches in a controllable amount of computational time. We demonstrate that PILS identifies useful high-order moves that would otherwise not be found by enumeration, and that it significantly improves the performance of state-of-the-art population-based and neighborhood-centered metaheuristics.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Pattern recognition. - Oxford
Publication
Oxford : 2021
ISSN
0031-3203
DOI
10.1016/J.PATCOG.2021.107957
Volume/pages
116 (2021) , p. 1-10
Article Reference
107957
ISI
000655550500006
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Creation 11.05.2021
Last edited 25.11.2024
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